Yuya Sato (novelist)

Yuya Sato
Born (1980-12-07) 7 December 1980
Hokkaido, Japan
Occupation Writer
Language Japanese
Period 2001–present
Genre Fiction, crime fiction, thriller, science fiction
Notable awards Mephisto Prize (2001)
Mishima Prize (2007)
In this Japanese name, the family name is Sato.

Yuya Sato (佐藤友哉 Satō Yūya, born 1980) is a Japanese novelist from Hokkaido Prefecture. He won the 21st Mephisto Prize for Flicker Style,[1] and the 20th Yukio Mishima Prize for 1000 Novels and Backbeard.[2] His works have been translated into English, Chinese and Korean.

Kenzaburō Ōe, Kenji Nakagami and especially J. D. Salinger affected Sato's style.

Works in English translation

Novel
Short story

This is a stand-alone short story and is also the first chapter of his Novel Gray-Colored Diet Coke. The title was named after Kenji Nakagami's Gray-Colored Coke.

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Kagami family series

Standalone novels

Some of these books are not novels but collections of linked short stories.

Short story collection

Film adaptations

References

  1. The list of the winners of the Mephisto Prize on Kodansha's website (Japanese)
  2. The list of the winners of the Yukio Mishima Prize on Shinchosha's website(Japanese)
  3. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-29/novelist-to-launch-new-danganronpa-project-in-2015/.81580

External links

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